Demolishing housing estates

Thank you for that link durhamjen I had no idea such a site existed.

Glad to help, if it does, gillybob. I use it for potholes and lights not working properly. It makes interesting reading. Lots of flytipping, which is useful to tell them because the council cannot possibly go round everywhere. If you see a problem that you think your council could do something about, you just go on the site and see if anyone else has reported it and when.

Anyway, back to Cameron and his housing plans.
At PMQs he said in response to Corbyn that he lived in his own house, Corbyn lived in his, but wanted to deny the rest of the population the ability to own their own homes.
Cameron does not live in his own house. He has rented it out since he moved into Downing Street and has made over half a million in rent.
I am not suggesting he is a dodgy landlord, just that he was telling fibs.

Nothing new there is there

Are you sure he didn't say he 'owned' his own house? That's obviously what he meant, and to accuse him of 'telling fibs' is nit-picking in the extreme!

You are wrong djen Cameron actually said " You own your own house, I own my own house " etc. That puts a different connotation on it.

Hmm...thought as much!

After all, we all know where he actually lives...

Oh, what a missed opportunity for Corbyn! If only he had foreseen Cameron's fairly predictable response to his question, and had an appropriate response at the ready!

Unfortunately, while Cameron seems to have a whole team preparing put-down answers to possible questions that he might be asked, Labour really don't seem to have got their act together in this regard.
There are (plenty of) times when I feel that some of us are better informed than they are and would do a better job of blowing Cameron's claims / put-downs out of the water. Whatever the reason for Labour's failings in this regard, it's a crying shame.

Cameron owns more than one house so if he had been truthful he would have said - I own my houses, you own your house .

Oh fgs!

Mind you, at least you're acknowledging that he said 'owns' and not 'lives in'...

If we're being picky, the actual words were I own my home.
What is your home? The house you live in, not the house you own.
The house he owns is someone else's home at the moment for which privilege he has taken half a million in rent.

Has anyone actually looked at the parliament website and the register of financial interests. All they are asked for is if they have a property worth over £100,000 and get rents of over £10,000 for them.

Not many properties in this country worth less than £100,000, and certainly none in London. At least fifty per cent of those tory MPs have somewhere to rent out in London. They do not care that people who have to rent can live in slum conditions because there is no overall law to control landlords.

Cameron, like all PMs, is only living at number 10 temporarily.

I'm sure he considers the house where he and his family used to live before he was elected as PM as his 'home'.

And I am sure he claimed removal expenses for moving all the family furniture into his new home. We paid for it.

No 10 is a 'tied house' (provided as part of your job, as opposed to a 'tied pub')

Yes, durhamjen, just as we would pay for a PM of any stripe or colour's family furniture to be moved. Or is it only Tory PMs who claim such expenses? Can't see your point...

I don't think it's unreasonable for a country to pay removal expenses for its first/prime minister while s/he is that. The current one is rich but if he hadn't been rich those expenses would still have been paid and are part of the system that enables democracy to work.

ana has said the same thing in a different way. I do wish you wouldn't complain so much about perfectly reasonable things, dj.

Isn't No 10 fully furnished?

Mind you, I would want to buy new beds

Entire beds? Wouldn't new mattresses do?

If you felt that squeamish.

sometimes it's cheaper to buy a whole bed than just a mattress!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/8389091/Cherie-Blair-Tony-still-excites-me-in-all-possible-ways.html
but definitely a new mattress at least

Ah.

Not complaining; just stating. Cameron is one example of someone who will gain from the vote, along with the others on the list.

As I said earlier, if it was council voting, those councillors who had houses to rent out would have to declare an interest and not vote.
SNP did not get a vote because it was not relevant to Scotland. It was the first time that EVEL had been used.

One MP I know of, Hollinrake of Thirsk and Malton.
He has a share of twelve residential properties in York, all of which he rents out.
If this law had gone through, it would have cost him to register the fact that these properties were fit. It's like all properties are supposed to have pat testing of electrical equipment. Some do, some try and get away with it.

Is that reasonable? It's illegal, but there are not enough people to check on it; small state government now.
Anyone who stands to gain from a vote should not be able to vote. That's reasonable to me.

Before moving to no 10, he lived in one home in London and one home in Oxfordshire , now he lives in no 10, and the Oxfordshire home and rents out his London home . In 2010 he admitted he didn't know/ couldn't remember how many houses owned , so must have sold some since , one can't forget two houses surely